Alice Catherine Evans (1881 - 1975)

Alice Catherine Evans was a pioneering US microbiologist. She became a researcher at the US Department of Agriculture. There she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She later demonstrated that Bacillus abortus caused the disease Brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle and humans. source: Wikipedia

Known for
Demonstrating that bacillus abortus caused Burcellosis She was the first woman scientist to hold a permanent position as a USDA bacteriologist and as a civil service worker was protected by law First female president of the Society of American Bacteriologists, elected in 1928

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Wikipedia Memoirs by Alice Evans (PDF )